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Sports and Community Clubs

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations she has received from the Central Council of Physical Recreation and other bodies about the proposed levels of licensing fees for sports and community clubs. [211741]

 
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Mr. Caborn: The Department received representations from a number of sports bodies, including the Central Council of Physical Recreation, in response to its consultation on draft fees for the new licensing regime. Their views were considered along with representations we received from local authorities and other bodies, as well as individuals. The fees were laid in Parliament on 20 January and copies are in the House Libraries. Further correspondence was received from sports-related bodies when the consultation period ended.

Sports Funding

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much central Government funding has been allocated to sport in each year since 1994. [211903]

Mr. Caborn: Figures for central Government funding for sport are shown in the tables.

Figures shown are outturn, except those for 2004–05, which are plans.
£ million

	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000
Great Britain Sports Council(8)	49.357	49.250	27.679	—	—	—
English Sports Council(8)	—	—	15.679	33.730	33.290	34.150
UK Sports Council(8)	—	—	4.000	11.800	11.600	12.600
Football Licensing Authority	0.870	0.896	0.896	0.896	0.792	0.920
Sportsmatch	3.300	3.700	3.200	3.200	3.200	3.370
Sports Aid Foundation	0.020	—	—	—	—	—
Children's Play	—	—	0.375	0.400	0.400	0.484
British Chess Federation(9)	—	—	0.049	0.049	0.049	0.046
Other sport support	—	0.100	—	0.050	0.030	0.020
Commonwealth Games Ceremonies	—	—	—	—	—	—
Step into Sport	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lee Valley Regional Centre (Pickett's Lock)	—	—	—	—	—	—
Capital support for Wembley National Stadium	—	—	—	—	—	—
Space for Sport and the Arts	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	53.547	53.946	51.878	50.125	49.361	51.590

£ million

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Great Britain Sports Council(8)	—	—	—	—	—
English Sports Council(8)	34.950	39.730	76.649	44.572	69.570
UK Sports Council(8)	12.750	16.770	16.321	23.175	27.310
Football Licensing Authority	0.940	0.941	0.955	2.128	1.125
Sportsmatch	3.370	3.550	3.675	3.675	3.675
Sports Aid Foundation	—	—	—	—	—
Children's Play	0.495	0.496	0.498	0.500	0.500
British Chess Federation(9)	0.053	0.050	0.055	0.060	0.060
Other sport support	0.010	—	1.039	0.419	0.940
Commonwealth Games Ceremonies	—	2.476	8.301	—	—
Step into Sport	—	—	2.271	3.667	4.000
Lee Valley Regional Centre (Pickett's Lock)	—	—	—	0.188	—
Capital support for Wembley National Stadium	—	—	—	—	6.000
Space for Sport and the Arts	0.013	0.579	10.100	40.850	—
Total	52.581	64.592	119.864	119.234	113.180

⁽⁸⁾On 1 January 1997 the UK Sports Council and the English Sports Council replaced the Great Britain Sports Council.
⁽⁹⁾Until April 1996 funding for the British Chess Federation was provided by the Department for Education and Employment.



 
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Sports Participation

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment has been made by Sport England of the levels of participation in sport by children outside school age. [211743]

Mr. Caborn: Sport England has not carried out or commissioned any formal research on this age group, however, the following data taken from the Health Survey for England (HSE) 2002 shows the percentage of two to five-year-olds, by age and sex, who participated in a sport and exercise activity on at least one day in the seven days before interview. The survey does not measure activities within school.
Percentage

Age	Male	Female
2	31	36
3	29	44
4	42	45
5	53	50

Source:
Health Survey for England 2002

Figures taken from the General Household Survey (GHS) for 2002 show that 72 per cent. of 16 to 19-year-olds participated in at least one sport, game or physical activity, excluding walking, in the four weeks before interview. However, the survey does not distinguish between those in this age group who are in full-time education and those that are not.

DCMS, in partnership with its NDPBs including Sport England, will shortly be commissioning a new survey to gather information on participation and attendance from individuals, including older children, in private households in England.

Tourism

Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on Government support for the tourism industry in the last financial year. [210900]

Mr. Caborn: Grant in aid from the Department to VisitBritain totalled £45.9 million in 2003–04, of which£35.5 million was allocated to promoting Britain overseas, and £10.4 million to promoting England within Britain.

In addition, the Greater London Authority received grant in aid of £1.9 million from my Department for the promotion of tourism in 2003–04.

Regional support for tourism is the responsibility of the nine English Regional Development Agencies, which together allocated a total of £58.9 million for that purpose in 2003–04 from their central Government funding.

Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people are employed in the tourism sector. [211553]

Mr. Caborn: As at June 2003 there were 2.2 million people working in the tourism-related industries in Great Britain. Tourism employment estimates are regularly published in the National Statistics series 'Labour Market Trends'.
 
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Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what percentage of gross domestic product was accounted for by the tourism industry in the last year for which figures are available; and what the change in percentage of gross domestic product has been in each of the last 10 years. [211554]

Mr. Caborn: The available data for tourism's contribution to total United Kingdom gross value added (GVA) are shown in the table.

	Tourism GVA as a percentage of UK GVA
2000	3.8
2001	3.6
2002	3.5
2003	3.4

Industry-specific data are available only for GVA, not GDP. GDP differs from GVA in that subsidies on products are subtracted and taxes are added to yield estimates of GDP, but these flows are estimated at the whole economy level only.

These figures are sourced from the 'UK Tourism Satellite Account—First Steps Project' publication, which was completed in September 2004. The project assessed the size of the tourism industry as at 2000 and produced forward estimates of key headline indicators, based on the available data, up to 2003.

Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture,Media and Sport what the rate of productivity in the tourism industry was in (a) 2002–03 and (b) 2003–04. [211556]

Mr. Caborn: The rates of productivity for the tourism industry in 2001 and 2002 are shown in the table.

	Output per worker (Percentage change on previous year)
2001	2.2
2002	3.9

Data is sourced from the Annual Business Inquiry, which uses calendar, rather than financial, years. Provisional data for 2003 was released on 16 December 2004 and will be used to update the tourism productivity figures in February.

Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) overseas tourists and (b) domestic tourists visited London in (i) 2003 and (ii)2004. [211557]

Mr. Caborn: The number of visits by (a) overseas tourists and (b) domestic tourists in 2002 and 2003 are shown in the table. Figures for 2004 will be published on 8 April for overseas visitors and in May for domestic visitors.
Million

	2002	2003
Visits by domestic tourists	16.1	14.3
Visits by overseas tourists	11.6	11.7

Source:
UK Tourism Survey, International Passenger Survey




 
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